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I JUY 2. MM (,1'ioyatiMCSectionr Cnrn, ««00 *ltt Lme-t22 r\Gi:sprice 3d.liuruiLii ii, i ni liiu60 Leaf Books 3}d0CM ACCOM CWMU LWITIU A0IL4IUIAustral It t ('.omos HomoMAN KILLS WIFE HELOVES WITH Electrical WorksGELIGNITEDERTH.—Mystery of three car deaths by gelignite explosion has been revealed as on amazing plot by a husband to kill his wife. He took with her and himself his wife's mother.This is what comes of loving your wife, he said, when badly wounded He was found in the' battered rear seatSTORY or (he tragedv which,band u ho occupier !hp bar* «al. puzzled Australia •« told at had parked enough gelignite intoan inquest held vesteroay It began when Mrs Beatrice Irene Ba.rd. 34. drove her car from her home on December 5 w:tn her mother sitting beside her.I She did not know that her hus-fhe upholstery to kill them a!! on the outingThe victim.* wereMRS. BFATRK F. FRENE BAIRD.Back from fhe wars 3^. and refit in England, H.M.A.S. Australia come to Outer Harbor today.Here it an air shot as she was gliding to berth. Other pictures show a cheery welcome from crew relatives—a mother greeting her soilor son while a soldier son looks on, and, below a South Australian party heading happily for demob. Other special pictures, Page 5.*-,000 SWARM ON O BIG CRUISERone hour 3,000 people poured over H.M.A.S. Australia when she was opened to the public the Outer Harbor this afternoon. Two usand others arrived later.walt; the wcond ru.-h of th«-j y The flr*t »aj m th«-a when .several hundredinH r*la*ilt; p- nf Smith A i.MRSmotherH.I/.A KIIODIS, 64 herJAMES AI.F.XAMiER BAIRD45. the husband Baird d.ert si.\ days after the explosion which killed h;s companions instant 1\The mystery (,f where Baird ob-tained the gelignite 1* unsolved The fatal explosion occurred on the Great Eastern Hush way. Victoria Park, about three miles from Pmh about 113d a rn on December 5F.\ idrnre showed that Mrs Bmrd hart been driving with her mother ‘ittinc alongside on the front seat J pines Baird wa.- Mtting in the rear seatThe explosion in the ear was heard about a mile away. The sedan ear wa* partis wrecked with a raping hole torn in Its hood It left the road, lore through a fence, and came to rest at the bottom of an embankment in the front garden of a house.Mr' Baird was thrown out on the roadway «t the moment of the explosion, and Mrsf|'HE general manager of Philips Electrical Industries (Mi- Leighton Lord) photographed in Adelaide today. His company will transfer from Sydney to the Hendon smail-armt factory, providing permanent work for 2.000 South Australians. It will build 150 homes here. See Page 9-they had later to be amputated, istill remained in the tattered rearscat.The coroner was told that for four month* before the tragedy Beird had been living apart fromhU wife.Three men gave evidence that on three separate occasions Baird had asked them for gelignite. He ! told them he wanted it for break-Rhode* some J ,ng up a concrete floor at North yards later, but Baird, with his left Perth. None of the three gave leg and arm so badly mutilated that I him anyPHONE THREATSDonovan Francis Duncan Rhode. '«n of Mrs Rhodes and brother of Mr* Baird aid at one time Mrs Baird resided at Forrestfield. where Baird was a contractor. After seoarating from his wife. Baird went to Victoria, and on hia return lived at a hotel in Perth Bdlrd used to telephone Mr*. Riitrd everv dav. and •ometlme* two and three time* a d*s. and wa* very abusive to her Mr*. Baird had told him i Rhodes! that several times Baird had threatened to do her and their child in.Each t.me. after making such threats. Bmrd had later telephoned hi' wife and apologiscd.For .some weeks before Decem-oer Mrs Baird was apparently verv frightened of her husband. Mrs Baird had refused to see him. land he 'RhodesI could not understand how Baird cnme to be with them in the car on December 5Margaret Ann Doust. living in Great Eastern Highway, Victoria Park 'aid she went to the cai after the explosion, and a badlv in -, urcd man in the back seat sain what comes of loving vmirDetect ive-Sergeant C. E. Wooc lev. of Victoria Park, who wa* t charge of police inquiries, sai when he visited Bairds room i His Matesty* Hotel, he found I suitcase which contained a lengt of fu*e and a packet, which prc •umabJy had contained geligniteIn a drawer of the dressing tab! I he found some live cartridges an tome mutilated ones. He also fun : an envelope addressed to Baird’ daughter, and a letter signed i Baird.He visited Baird several times i the Perth Hospital after the tra gedy. but Baird was not in a II state to be interviewed.Woodley said that gunpowde from mutilated cartridges coul have been used to cause the gelig nite to explode. Nobody saw wha caused the explosion, and he da not know Bairds handwritinj Woodley said.The coroner found tnat Bair-died from self-inflicted miuriei and that Baird caused the explo- ... ■ * - '■« «. d u.'m exp..'ion which resulted in the deal two women.Organiser* of ihr luncheon appeal for flower*, brrrlrv and foiiagr to decorate the hut. Theymav be left there tomorrow orJohn “ndfuture—
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Fremantle Mail
Fremantle, Western Australia, AU
Sat, Feb 02, 1946
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